Automation of services in a boon to mankind! It makes work more productive, efficient, labor and cost effective and error free to a large extent. RFID finds useful applications in the education industry. The high technology RFID device makes work easier and relieves the management from a lot of manual work along with providing security and safety to the area of operations.

RFID is an automated identification technology which uses tags to transmit data to the RFID reader. This finds variety of applications in the education industry making it advanced, error free and safe. From roll calls to people/asset tracking it provides overall solutions.

Following are the key solutions based around RFID applications for the Education Industry.

• Relieves you from the primitive way of attendance/roll call: teachers no longer have to call names to mark regular attendance, this can be replaced by using RFID tags, so that the reader may automatically relay signals and the attendance is updated in the computer systems as the student walks into the campus.

• Tracking assets: tags maybe places on laptops, projectors, computers etc, to keep them safe and locate them easily.

• Teachers can be given tags: schools/universities may automatically track them, and know their exact time in and time out, and also locate them quickly in case of emergencies

• Using tags for tracking daily visitors: tags with temporary passes can be issued so that, any visitor maybe tracked when within the campus; this increases the security of the campus and the students.

• Security of restricted areas: RFID helps track movements of people, and raises alarm if an unauthorized person enters any prohibited area.

• RFID tagged school vehicles: this enables both the authorities and concerned parents to track their students/kids while they are travelling from school to home and vice-versa. This ensures complete security and safety of the students.

• Library management: tags maybe pasted on all books and study material in a library for proper management, location and placement of books.

• Canteen management: gives the students and teachers an easier and convenient way of having their lunch by using RFID based canteen management system. These allow fast, effective and well organized issuance of lunch tokens and lunch packages.

All these activities are being manually carried out in all educational campuses; RFID gives a simpler and safer solution to all management hassles. Turning your educational institute to a “smart campus”.